Day: September 9, 2017

Greetings and salutations! I’m sitting and relaxing today watching a Minecraft Livestream on Twitch with Elder Youth. I have a feeling that today will be less writing and more research/learning, simply because with all the laundry interruptions, I tend to get less written.

If anything.

909 fiction words, 1,063 total words

Yesterday’s words were good, as you can see. I finished a story in the morning, cleaned up a bunch of spilled water from flowers I foolishly left on my desk during my shower, and then published it under a pen name in the evening. There’s a little bit of housekeeping to do with that still, and then I will start learning things.

I used to write romance. I haven’t in a while for I don’t know why. I like reading romance – it’s actually my favorite genre. So today’s learning is going to focus on romance novel “beats” (a new word I learned this week) and “hooks” (which I knew about but didn’t have the word for it).

Also under the, “I learned this” umbrella I need to think about whether I would put romance under a pen name or not. I’m inclined to not. I’m thinking that I could do enough branding of romance novel covers to distinguish between that and the rest of the things I write, whether they’re fantasy or science fiction or some weird mash of the two.

The argument with pen names, as I understand it, is that you want readers to be confidant about what you write so they don’t pick up something new expecting romance and then get totally squicked out when you actually wrote horror. I think I can accomplish this with branding and covers. If you have thoughts you’d like to share on this, I’d love to hear them. 🙂